Sandeep Jauhar : How your emotions change the shape of your heart

Sandeep Jauhar·TEDSummit 2019
How your emotions change the shape of your heart
Summary
We must hope that our heart is healthy and our heart wants to have and feel love. On Twitter, you must have seen a picture that a bride hears a man's beating of the heart. The man has the transported heart from the bride’s father who was declared brain dead. The appearance is a stranger, though, people want to think that the heart is her father.
Then, if you have a permanent artificial heart, you are you, aren't you?

The speaker explains the problem by using Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a temporary heart condition that develops in response to an intense emotional or physical experience. It seems to be known as stress cardiomyopathy or broken heart syndrome also. In this condition, the heart's main pumping chamber changes shape by affecting the heart's ability to pump blood effectively and its chamber is similar to Takotubo. Toko means octopus, Tubo means a pot, and Takotubo means a vase to capture octopus in Japanese. The name surprises us.

Affecting means that we want to think that the heart is not a machine. How do you think about the benefit of science: pacemakers, defibrillators, coronary bypass surgery, and heart transplants? And then, people will die by emotional stress, though, it can’t be treated by changing your heart.